Edgefield, South Carolina
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Edgefield is a town in and the county seat of Edgefield County, South Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, Edgefield had a population of 2,322.
Town square in Edgefield
Preston Brooks
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Preston Smith Brooks was an American slaveholder, politician, and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina, serving as a member of the Democratic Party from 1853 until his resig
Edgefield, South Carolina
…threatened in 1850 when many leaders throughout the South began to speak of secession. The 1856 caning of Senator Charles Sumner by Edgefield Congressman Preston Brooks on the floor of the United States Senate galvanized the nation and set South Carolina on a course for secession and Civil War. By the fall of 1860 when…
Brooks in 1856
Laurence M. Keitt
J.L. Magee's famous political cartoon of the attack on Sumner